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Hurdy Gurdy PD by LowtekGames

2 mins
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A Hurdy Gurdy music toy for PlaydateThe eagerly awaited Hurdy Gurdy fainaly makes its way onto playdate.
A unique and fun music app that lets you play a virtual Hurdy Gurdy instrument on your Playdate. With Hurdy Gurdy, you can experience the rich, distinctive sound of the Hurdy Gurdy, a traditional stringed instrument that produces a buzzing drone, and trumpet string sounds. Using the Playdate’s crank and control pad, you can control the speed of the wheel, the pitch of the notes, allowing you to create a wide range of musical expressions.
Hours or fun with playdates most accurate Hurdy Gurdy simulator to date.

As seen on the playdate community awards half time show performance

**Features:**Trumpet string (can turn on and tune sensitivity in options)Turn drone string off and onTune anticlockwise different for clockwise(cant do that on a real Gurdy)2 octaves of notes,(Tilt device to activate higher string/octave (can tweak in options))Play in multiple scales -major, miner, naturalTranspose to different keys

**Options Menu:bring up the options by ether pressing the system menu button then selecting options or by docking the crank, press b to exit when the crank is undocked.Scale -change between Major, Miner and Natural Drone-toggle drone string off and on, transposes with transpose optionTrumpet-toggle trumpet string off and on, can tune sensitivityGurdy Skin-Chose from 7 Gurdy designsTrumpet Active-tune the amount of movement needed to activate trumpet stringTranspose-Transpose notes up or down to play in different keys with other instruments.Detune Back Crank-Transpose the tuning when cranked anti clockwiseOpen Delay-Tune the amount of time before the note returns to the open g string, makes it easier to not sound like grace notes all the time but some songs require it low like thunderstruck!!Octave Tilt-tune the point where the high string is activated with tiltTilt AxisChose which axis controls the high string activationBugs?**keep an eye out for updates on the playdate dev forum and see how it developed. https://devforum.play.date/t/hurdy-gurdy-music-app/8557/11

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